Author Kate Christensen: Teacher groped her while she was at Green Meadow

11:00 PM,
Sep. 7, 2013

The Green Meadow Waldorf School is on the Threefold Education Campus in Chestnut Ridge.

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The high school math teacher's pretense for the regular after dinner walks, Kate Christensen wrote, was so he could lend guidance and support to her, a vulnerable young student far from home.

But the 16-year-old's reality was much darker. The walks, she said, led to terrifying episodes in a deserted field where he kissed her and pinned her to his belly, grinding himself against her and laughing at her attempts to flee.

Paralyzed with fear and shame, Christensen never told police as the alleged sexual misconduct continued over the course of her junior year at the Green Meadow Waldorf School in ...